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M.A. University of Hawaii at Manoa 2015.

The aim of this study is to investigate the role of curatorial activities by the general web public with a focus on the concept of selective exposure in online political discussions. A heated controversy about Japan’s state secrecy law using a social curatorial application, Togetter, was used as a case for this study. Descriptive content analysis was applied as a method to examine whether selective exposure to like-minded opinions or cross-ideological exposure to dissimilar opinions functioned in this case. The major finding was that Twitter’s tendency of selective exposure was enhanced by curatorial activities using Togetter. The concept of context collapse and technological affordances were likely to contribute this tendency. The study also suggests curators played a significant role to encourage selective exposure in political discussions.

Shimizu, A. (2017). Roles of Curators in Japanese Political Discussions on Twitter: Content Analysis of Togetter Lists on the Secrecy Law. (Thesis). University of Hawaii – Manoa. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10125/50909

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Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):

Shimizu, Asako. “Roles of Curators in Japanese Political Discussions on Twitter: Content Analysis of Togetter Lists on the Secrecy Law.” 2017. Thesis, University of Hawaii – Manoa. Accessed September 15, 2019.
http://hdl.handle.net/10125/50909.

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MLA Handbook (7th Edition):

Shimizu, Asako. “Roles of Curators in Japanese Political Discussions on Twitter: Content Analysis of Togetter Lists on the Secrecy Law.” 2017. Web. 15 Sep 2019.

Vancouver:

Shimizu A. Roles of Curators in Japanese Political Discussions on Twitter: Content Analysis of Togetter Lists on the Secrecy Law. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Hawaii – Manoa; 2017. [cited 2019 Sep 15].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10125/50909.

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Council of Science Editors:

Shimizu A. Roles of Curators in Japanese Political Discussions on Twitter: Content Analysis of Togetter Lists on the Secrecy Law. [Thesis]. University of Hawaii – Manoa; 2017. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10125/50909

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► This research attempts to understand the individual experience of homelessness and belonging through the curation and production of an exhibition titled Sit with me, tell…
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▼ This research attempts to understand the individual experience of homelessness and belonging through the curation and production of an exhibition titled Sit with me, tell me something...
As a researcher with previous experience of homelessness I bring my insider position and insights from past projects with members of the homeless community to extend investigation into the ways in which co-curation and collaboration through art can empower a group to have agency, as well as to communicate and engender an understanding of complex social issues to an art audience.
What the general public sees (through the rhetoric presented in social and mainstream media) often directs how marginal societies are represented to this public. As a result of the media being dominating by the visual, art has lost its criticality (Rosler, 2010). Influenced by the writings of Jacques Rancière and Albert Camus, I believe that at our current point in history, contemporary art and design practice must embrace the social and our protests should, wherever possible, be concerned with the local. Art offers an opportunity to challenge perceptions and gives agency to minority voices that have the potential to democratise dominant structures.
I will be drawing predominantly on continental literature as a way of conceptualising the unique in-between-space that people with experience of homelessness occupy. I will then attempt to apply relevant concepts to the way that my collaborators and I curate the ensuing exhibition titled Sit with me tell me something... It is in challenging the 'either or...' positions concerning the right to public space as places of expression that I position my own practice.
Sit with me tell me something... has been designed for the foyer space between AUT ST PAUL St Galleries One and Two. The site was chosen because it represents the spatial boundaries between 'public' and 'private' space; a threshold over which the general public gains admission to the academic institution. It symbolises a key concern of this research - an attempt to better understand how public space is defined based on private/personal experiences of belonging.
Art galleries, specifically University galleries, can act as sites of convergence as they are both within an institution and open to the public, with a mandate to act as 'critic and conscience of society' (Education Act 1989, s 162). A university gallery that shows only two-dimensional images is only presenting the audience with a narrow representation of the art made accessible by the institution. Alternatives to traditional picture displays such as those reviewed in this project are intended to help inform the design approach for the exhibition Sit with me tell me something...
My methodology is informed by a narrative-based, socially-engaged curatorial practice. Applied to collaboration, this denotes a process of negotiation that has developed over time in order to establish our collective narrative. Through regular meetings and discussions with the collaborators our…
Advisors/Committee Members: Palmer, Fleur (advisor), Jansen, Dieneke (advisor).

► My thesis draws on work from sociology and psychology, but mostly on work from human-computer interaction (HCI) to examine the long-term relationship between individuals and…
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▼ My thesis draws on work from sociology and psychology, but mostly on work from human-computer interaction (HCI) to examine the long-term relationship between individuals and their social media data, with a special focus on the role of technology. The first goal of this dissertation is to unpack the identity management work on social media from both the temporal and spatial perspectives. To accomplish this goal, I conducted two qualitative studies with active social media users that reveal tensions and strategies related to how people manage content sharing on social media, across platforms, over time. Results show that identity management work encompasses negotiating with other individuals in the space (e.g. [180]), negotiating with ever-changing self-presentation needs on a single social media platform over time (Study 1), and negotiating different audiences and practices across multiple social media platforms (study 2).
The second goal of my dissertation is to further explore the potential benefit of repurposing one’s social media content for “personal use” – reminiscing and reflection. Study 3 and Study 4 examine the “personal use of social media data.” More specifically: Over time, social media holds a valuable collection of personal content as users carefully select and curate content for their social media profiles; social media is unique in supporting revisiting of past content and offering opportunities for reflection; Besides as a source of positive memory, reflecting on how one shares on social media in relation to other communication traces could potentially support one’s mindfulness of communication, relationship, and life goals, support the coping with psychological stress, and motivate behavioral change.
My work provided empirical evidences that the effort that goes into managing one’s social media identity over time, across platforms, presents unique opportunities for designing tools for identity reflection.
My dissertation will contribute to the field’s understanding of how people value and manage their online presence as part of their digital archive, as well as how to advance the design agenda to help people deal with more devices, more types of digital belongings, and more diverse places for storing and encountering personal data.
Advisors/Committee Members: Lampe, Clifford A (committee member), Eisenberg, Daniel (committee member), Cosley, Dan (committee member), Ackerman, Mark Steven (committee member).

Zhao, X. (2016). After You Press "Share": Supporting Identity Management and Identity Reflection through Social Media. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Michigan. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/133183

Zhao X. After You Press "Share": Supporting Identity Management and Identity Reflection through Social Media. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/133183

University of Southern California

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Milholland, Nancy Elizabeth.
Exploring San Francisco's treasures: mashing up public art,
social media, and volunteered geographic information to create a
dynamic guide.

► The San Francisco Public Art Map (SFPAM) mashes up disparate sources of data to create a dynamic, comprehensive, and interactive map of public art and…
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▼ The San Francisco Public Art Map (SFPAM) mashes up
disparate sources of data to create a dynamic, comprehensive, and
interactive map of public art and landmark buildings in the City of
San Francisco. The San Francisco Arts Commission administers
publicly funded art and is responsible for over 800 pieces but maps
are incomplete or inaccurate. There are hundreds of other art
pieces such as murals, street art, and art funded by private
organizations not included in the San Francisco Arts Commission
dataset. Existing applications focus on one type of art or a narrow
selection of installations. No application combines institutional
data sets, peer‐reviewed volunteered geographic information, and
social media to create a comprehensive view of publicly available
art. ❧ The SFPAM consists of a web client and ArcGIS Online maps.
The web client uses JavaScript, Dojo, social media application
programming interfaces, ArcGIS Server, ArcSDE, REST services, and
Microsoft SQL Server technologies. Configuration and development to
add functionality to Esri's Public Information Map 2.0 source code
transformed a disaster map to an art map. The web application
incorporates Stamen Design basemaps to provide a fresh look that
complements the art content. ArcGIS Online maps enable users to
contribute new art and buildings and view art data on mobile
devices through the ArcGIS for Mobile or Collector applications. ❧
There are three levels of curated data: institutional,
administrative, and social. Institutional curation consists of
datasets provided by institutions that administer or fund public
art projects. The administrative level includes reviewed
volunteered geographic information. Socialcuration consists of a
dynamic layer of pictures and comments on public art through social
media streams such as Flickr, Panoramio, Instagram, and YouTube.
The application demonstrates a unique method of combining data
sources to provide a public art map for visitors and residents of
San Francisco.
Advisors/Committee Members: Pultar, Edward (Committee Chair), Kemp, Karen K. (Committee Member), Swift, Jennifer N. (Committee Member).

Milholland NE. Exploring San Francisco's treasures: mashing up public art,
social media, and volunteered geographic information to create a
dynamic guide. [Masters Thesis]. University of Southern California; 2014. Available from: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/363642/rec/2658

► With increasing advancements in technology, archaeologists are adapting new methods and equipment to supplement or entirely replace traditional, paper-based methods of data collection. For example,…
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▼ With increasing advancements in technology, archaeologists are adapting new methods and equipment to supplement or entirely replace traditional, paper-based methods of data collection. For example, some excavations are replacing traditional paper field notebooks with electronic tablets to automatically record and upload site data online. As archaeologists seek new ways to collect, store, and visualize data, they also find themselves dealing with issues of data curation and management during excavations and surveys. To address these issues, some archaeologists, with the help of outside specialists, have created databases to store and manage data for specific archaeological sites. ¶ Though archaeology teams all over the world have implemented databases for their work, the literature on this topic from both an information science and archaeology perspective is limited, especially focusing on Egyptian archaeology. In this paper I explore the motivations behind the upcoming creation of a central database for an archaeological excavation in Egypt, and the impact the team believes a central system will have on their work. Currently, various members on the team use their own systems for curating data, ranging from commercial databases to excel sheets. With an information science perspective, the team hopes to bring their various systems together to form one database that is usable for all team members.
Advisors/Committee Members: Thomer, Andrea (advisor), Yakel, Elizabeth (committee member), Information, School of (affiliationum).

► Urban areas are centers of consumption and amenities play a major role in urban life. Cultural industries and the creative economy are thought to be…
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▼ Urban areas are centers of consumption and amenities
play a major role in urban life. Cultural industries and the
creative economy are thought to be important drivers of
contemporary urban development. The restaurant industry exhibits
the consumption advantages and agglomeration effects common to
urban areas. Restaurants, like other localized cultural goods, are
thought to add to the liveliness and character of a place. ❧
Through detailed interviews with people in the restaurant world, I
study how restaurants in New York City and Los Angeles play a role
in the cultural economy as well as how they interact and evolve
with social media. Social media has played a pivotal role in
shaping our understanding of the cultural industries such as film
and fashion and restaurants are no different. Social media can
contribute to our understanding of cities and implications for
economic development and urban planning. ❧ In addition, I conduct
geographical analysis to study restaurant patterns in
neighborhoods. This analysis will allow for larger inferences to be
drawn about the role of social media, buzz and cultural industry
development patterns in the 21st century city.
Advisors/Committee Members: Currid-Halkett, Elizabeth (Committee Chair), Banet-Weiser, Sarah (Committee Member), Green, Richard Kent (Committee Member).

Research in Management Science and Information Systems has proposed a series of work centered around the benefits of social networks for individuals and the adoption process that it entails. However, social network uses are numerous and each of them deserve in-depth studies. Specifically, the practice of content curation becomes truly relevant in a context of digital transformation. It proposes a new social network use that can benefit the organization. Thereby, the research opts to gather the concept of social network, curation and organizational knowledge through the following question: how does profesionnal content curation on social network participate to organizational knowledge ? This question has been sub-divided into three questions, allowing different multi-level analysis. The first one questions the influencing factors of social network curation for individuals ; the second one interrogates the benefit of using social network tool to operate content curation ; the third one combines both concepts in an organizational context with the aim of clarifying its benefits. Media Richess Theory, Social Presence Theory, UTAUT and…

► Unprecedented uses of information and communication technology (ICT) and particularly social media (e.g., Wikipedia, Facebook, and Twitter) are occurring in times of crisis. This…
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▼ Unprecedented uses of information and communication technology (ICT) and particularly social media (e.g., Wikipedia, Facebook, and Twitter) are occurring in times of crisis. This dissertation investigates the socio-technical practices emerging from the use of social media and how these practices help to sustain the living heritage of historic crises. The purpose is to provide empirical evidence on how heritage is a living and participatory phenomenon that needs to be considered when designing technology for heritage matters. The concepts of grassroots heritage and socially-distributed curationare offered as a way of interpreting heritage in the context of the participatory culture.
This dissertation presents a multi-method investigation to determine what crisis narratives appeared in social media and how social media were used to sustain these narratives through curatorial activities. The first study surveys the social media presence of 111 crisis events that occurred between 1960 and 2010 to examine if and how past historically significant crisis events were being commemorated in the present day through new media. Then, ethnographic and automated collection methods were used to identify narratives appearing in the social media landscape for four crisis events that exhibited a high social media presence in the survey. The dissertation presents five meta-narratives for two crisis cases: (1) the 1984 Bhopal gas leak and (2) the 2001 September 11 attacks. One critical finding is that people sustain the heritage of historic crises in the digital world by perpetually revising narratives while adapting these messages to the new media of today. The second study critiques both the concept of “curator” as a profession as well as the concept of “curation” that is emerging from the social web to develop an initial conceptual model of curation. The final study involved the application and assessment of this initial conceptual model by analyzing the curatorial activities that produced the crisis narratives found in the first study. From this assessment, I articulate a theoretical model called socially-distributed curationto inform the design of future social technology.
Advisors/Committee Members: Leysia Palen, Ken Anderson, Gerhard Fischer.

Liu, S. B. (2011). Grassroots Heritage: A Multi-Method Investigation of How Social Media Sustain the Living Heritage of Historic Crises. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Colorado. Retrieved from http://scholar.colorado.edu/atlas_gradetds/1

Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):

Liu, Sophia B. “Grassroots Heritage: A Multi-Method Investigation of How Social Media Sustain the Living Heritage of Historic Crises.” 2011. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Colorado. Accessed September 15, 2019.
http://scholar.colorado.edu/atlas_gradetds/1.

Liu SB. Grassroots Heritage: A Multi-Method Investigation of How Social Media Sustain the Living Heritage of Historic Crises. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Colorado; 2011. [cited 2019 Sep 15].
Available from: http://scholar.colorado.edu/atlas_gradetds/1.

Council of Science Editors:

Liu SB. Grassroots Heritage: A Multi-Method Investigation of How Social Media Sustain the Living Heritage of Historic Crises. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Colorado; 2011. Available from: http://scholar.colorado.edu/atlas_gradetds/1

► This thesis explores the questions of how and why indigenous curation is incorporated into collections care and management for American Indian sacred, ceremonial, and…
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▼ This thesis explores the questions of how and why indigenous curation is incorporated into collections care and management for American Indian sacred, ceremonial, and religious items at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science (DMNS) through the examination of staff discourse. This thesis also discusses the importance of incorporating non-Western ontologies and epistemologies into classically Western science and natural history museums, and how this helps reconcile differing collections care and management practices. Through the presentation and examination of data and literature, I argue that it is important to include indigenous curation in museums because it aids in cultural revitalization and reclamation for Native Americans, and that incorporating indigenous curatorial methods and alternative ontologies and epistemologies aids in the decolonization process in museums. This argument is presented through a case study of the Anthropology Department at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science
Advisors/Committee Members: Richard Clemmer-Smith, Ph.D., Esteban Gómez, Ph.D..

This study falls within the field of media and communication, and aims to research two different communication strategies on the travel company TUI’s Instagram page, as well as the interaction that these strategies result in. In order to fulfill the purpose of the study the following research questions have been defined: - What kind of interaction is displayed on TUI’s Instagram page, between the corporation and their followers? - How is TUI working with rotation curation versus commercial curation on Instagram? - How does the interaction differ between these two communication strategies? The study is based upon theories about structures in social media, the sender, word of mouth and visual communication. A qualitative method has been used and through a nethnographic observation on rotation curation, where an employee curates the content, and commercial curation, where the head office curates the content, the outcome of both strategies have been studied. The results of the…

► Over the last decade, Field Museum staff have worked to build enduring partnerships with local Filipinx-American community members. These partnerships engage participants in the…
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▼ Over the last decade, Field Museum staff have worked to build enduring partnerships with local Filipinx-American community members. These partnerships engage participants in the stewardship of the collection, reinterpreting entangled object meanings and connecting the Museum’s collection to the lived experiences of modern communities. Through collaborative digitization efforts and events the Philippine Co-Curation partnership works to confront a colonial past while offering a gathering space for local Filipinx-Americans. As an emerging approach to collections management, it aims to embody the ideals of modern museology, bringing both partners and staff into uncertain territory and inspiring important questions about how collaborative relationships negotiate authority, recognize expertise, and navigate the institutional contexts shaping their execution. In this way, the Field Museum’s Philippine Co-Curation partnership represents an important case study into the potential and pitfalls of long-term collaborative partnerships, and their ability to make museums more accessible, locally relevant, and respectful of diverse traditions.
Advisors/Committee Members: William W Wood.

Carlson, S. E. (2018). An Evolving Experiment in Community Engagement: the Philippine Co-Curation Partnership at the Field Museum. (Thesis). University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. Retrieved from https://dc.uwm.edu/etd/1768

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Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):

Carlson, Sarah E. “An Evolving Experiment in Community Engagement: the Philippine Co-Curation Partnership at the Field Museum.” 2018. Thesis, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. Accessed September 15, 2019.
https://dc.uwm.edu/etd/1768.

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Carlson SE. An Evolving Experiment in Community Engagement: the Philippine Co-Curation Partnership at the Field Museum. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee; 2018. [cited 2019 Sep 15].
Available from: https://dc.uwm.edu/etd/1768.

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Carlson SE. An Evolving Experiment in Community Engagement: the Philippine Co-Curation Partnership at the Field Museum. [Thesis]. University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee; 2018. Available from: https://dc.uwm.edu/etd/1768

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► This study examines the role of social media in maintaining interest in classic cinema in today’s media culture. Ethnographic analyses and case studies were performed…
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▼ This study examines the role of social media in maintaining interest in classic cinema in today’s media culture. Ethnographic analyses and case studies were performed within a robust classic cinema fan network on the social media blogging site Tumblr. The practices of these bloggers and their online platform are framed against the traditional structure of the curator and museum, indicating that they serve many of the cultural functions attributed to these institutions. This study further demonstrates that these Tumblr networks serve as a resource for young people to discover, share, and create communities relating to classic cinema. Due to the networking capabilities of Tumblr’s youth-oriented platform, these fan activities reach a broad range of individuals, exposing them to scenes and actors from classic cinema, stimulating interest in and acceptance of the cinematic framework of classic films. This content visibility and distribution potentially draws those outside the community into the extant fan network. These communities and practices represent previously unexplored methods by which classic cinema appreciation may develop and thrive within the fast-paced media culture of the 21st century.
Advisors/Committee Members: Frick, Caroline (advisor).

► In this dissertation, I examined data citations in the social sciences, measured the scholarly impact of data reuse as well as explored factors that are…
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▼ In this dissertation, I examined data citations in the social sciences, measured the scholarly impact of data reuse as well as explored factors that are associated with whether a dataset is reused. The guiding question for this dissertation is: What is the scholarly impact of data reuse? How can stakeholders anticipate the impact the data they fund, create, or curate will have?
I addressed this question is three parts. First, in order to quantify the scholarly impact of data reuse, I looked at identifying reuse through data citation patterns. My study extends previous studies by taking a more nuanced view of how social scientists use citations to acknowledge others’ prior work on which they are building. Second, I developed a suite of impact metrics for data. By testing these metrics on a varied group of social science datasets, I was demonstrated their use and shed light on how these datasets can be high impact in different ways. Finally, I explored what factors correlate with reuse and with high impact.
Examining data reuse in the social science literature showed that reusers of data regularly cite data producers’ publications, rather than citing data directly or crediting the data provider. Where they cite the data provider, they typically do so in addition to citing the data producer. This finding suggests that data reusers distinguish between the contributions producers make when they create data and when they share it: in essence, data reusers use citations to credit both actions. The four measures of reuse impact I developed highlighted different aspects of impact for data; no datasets were high-impact across the board, and few were consistently low-impact. The three metrics based on citations were especially divergent, suggesting that data can have an impact in multiple and varying ways. Finally, I showed that two characteristics of data are particularly related to whether the data are reused or not: the size of the data and how actively used they are. Together, these findings indicate that sharing data contributes to scholarship above and beyond the initial contribution a scientist makes when she creates data and publishes from them.
Advisors/Committee Members: Yakel, Elizabeth (committee member), Alter, George Charles (committee member), Adar, Eytan (committee member), Hedstrom, Margaret L. (committee member).

…CITATION PATTERNS IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
Figure 4.1 Decision tree for classifying publications… …Enabling data reuse through
curation and long-term management of data though, is a costly… …despite
undergoing the same careful curation processes, may never be touched again.
Repositories… …create or curate will have?
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How and why do social… …at The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR). In…

► Trustworthiness is the most fundamental but least well understood property of digital repositories that hold and preserve archival documents. As these digital repositories scale in…
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▼ Trustworthiness is the most fundamental but least well understood property
of digital repositories that hold and preserve archival documents. As these digital repositories scale in size and complexity, they are becoming essential sources for increasingly diverse populations of users. Scholarship across multiple disciplines has demonstrated that the trustworthiness of a digital repository tends to originate with organizational branding, surrounds and envelops the “control zone” of the managed digital space, and so resides primarily at the collective level of the repository. In spite of its conceptual centrality, little research has investigated trustworthiness of the documentary contents of repositories as conceived by the designated communities of users that the repository is intended to serve. This dissertation investigates users’ perceptions of trustworthiness for archival documents housed in a large, heterogeneous, government‐run digital repository. This dissertation utilizes the methodology of scale development, which involves four steps: 1) Construct Definition, 2) Generating an Item Pool, 3)Designing the Scale, and 4) Full Administration and Item Analysis. To address Steps 1 and 2 of scale development, I conducted a focus group study to elicit perspectives
on trustworthiness and identify items for measurement of trustworthiness based
upon actual users’ articulation of the concept; twenty‐two genealogists who
regularly utilize documents preserved by the Washington State Digital Archives participated. To address Steps 3 and 4 of scale development, I conducted
quantitative survey research and evaluated the responses of 233 genealogists,
including constructing and testing an original Digitized Archival Document
Trustworthiness Scale (DADTS). I also validated DADTS with a sample of users
beyond the participants who were used to develop it. DADTS specifies the
components of trustworthiness and also demonstrates the measurability of the
concept within a digital repository context at the document level.
This dissertation advances scholarship on trustworthiness in three ways.
First, it revises an existing conceptual model for trustworthiness perception.
Second, it creates an original measurement model for digitized archival document
trustworthiness perception—the Digitized Archival Document Trustworthiness
Scale (DADTS). Third, it contributes to a deeper understanding of the concept of
trustworthiness by providing measurement of the concept in a way that is sensitive to its nuances.
Advisors/Committee Members: Conway, Paul L. (committee member), Lepkowski, James M. (committee member), Rieh, Soo Young (committee member), Yakel, Elizabeth (committee member), Jacoby, William G. (committee member).

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The Importance of Trustworthiness as a Concept in the Field of
Digital Curation… …Curation… …Digital Curation… …that hold and preserve archival documents. For at
least fifteen years, digital curation… …repositories are intended to serve.
Some digital curation researchers have defined trustworthiness…

Donaldson, D. R. (2015). Development of a Scale for Measuring Perceptions of Trustworthiness for Digitized Archival Documents. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Michigan. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/111489

Donaldson DR. Development of a Scale for Measuring Perceptions of Trustworthiness for Digitized Archival Documents. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2015. [cited 2019 Sep 15].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/111489.

Council of Science Editors:

Donaldson DR. Development of a Scale for Measuring Perceptions of Trustworthiness for Digitized Archival Documents. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2015. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/111489

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Akmon, Dharma R.The Role of Conceptions of Value in Data Practices: A Multi-Case Study of Three Small Teams of Ecological Scientists.

► This dissertation examines the role of conceptions of data's value in data practices. Based on a study of three small teams of scientists carrying out…
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▼ This dissertation examines the role of conceptions of data's value in data practices. Based on a study of three small teams of scientists carrying out ecological research at a biological station, my study addresses the following main question: How do scientists conceive of the value of their data, and how do scientists enact conceptions of value in their data practices? I relied on interviews and participant observations for my study and analyzed my data through the lens of theories of value and meaning. I found that scientists were primarily concerned with data's value for their team's own, relatively narrow uses: addressing a gap in knowledge and producing the outputs that would garner them credit and prestige. When asked about their data's potential value beyond their studies, scientists regularly cited metaanalysis, cross-site comparison, and time-based studies as worthy secondary uses for data and assessed data's value according to how well they thought the data could serve those ends.
As they collected data and conducted their studies, scientists did not think about data's value beyond whether or not they were good as resources for addressing a gap in knowledge. However, when asked to make their data more openly available, researchers indicated that their decision to share was based strongly on data's value for producing publications for the team. Data that teams were still working with and planned to publish were regarded as too valuable to the team to make widely available. Conversely, when scientists thought data's publication value had been fully exploited for the team, they saw little threat in sharing. In addition to publication potential, scientists also suggested that study type influenced their decision to share data and told me that they felt less compelled to share data from controlled studies because they assumed such data had inherently limited value.
Advisors/Committee Members: Hedstrom, Margaret L. (committee member), Alter, George Charles (committee member), Lagoze, Carl (committee member), Yakel, Elizabeth (committee member).

…strong social message about the importance of managing data for reuse (Tucker,
2009)… …do with data. Social scientists in
one study, for example, reported that they would be more… …meanings arise from within social systems.
In his theory of symbolic interactionism, which… …social products that arise from ongoing interactions
between people. Meanings are never stable… …researchers is that the social
phenomena of meaning-making and valuation are likely to be more…

Akmon, D. R. (2014). The Role of Conceptions of Value in Data Practices: A Multi-Case Study of Three Small Teams of Ecological Scientists. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Michigan. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/107162

Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):

Akmon, Dharma R. “The Role of Conceptions of Value in Data Practices: A Multi-Case Study of Three Small Teams of Ecological Scientists.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Michigan. Accessed September 15, 2019.
http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/107162.

MLA Handbook (7th Edition):

Akmon, Dharma R. “The Role of Conceptions of Value in Data Practices: A Multi-Case Study of Three Small Teams of Ecological Scientists.” 2014. Web. 15 Sep 2019.

Vancouver:

Akmon DR. The Role of Conceptions of Value in Data Practices: A Multi-Case Study of Three Small Teams of Ecological Scientists. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2014. [cited 2019 Sep 15].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/107162.

Council of Science Editors:

Akmon DR. The Role of Conceptions of Value in Data Practices: A Multi-Case Study of Three Small Teams of Ecological Scientists. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2014. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/107162

► This thesis examines the implications, within art museums and in wider social, political, and economic contexts, of the cultural institutionalization of the recent Occupy movement.…
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▼ This thesis examines the implications, within art
museums and in wider social, political, and economic contexts, of
the cultural institutionalization of the recent Occupy movement. It
offers a multi‐layered study of two museum exhibitions engendered
by the significant outpour of Occupy actions in the California Bay
Area: Portraits from the Occupation, supported by the Oakland
Museum of California, and Occupy Bay Area, mounted by the Yerba
Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. The investigation
centers not only on a historical analysis of the exhibitions
themselves, but also on a significant commonality: beyond the
obvious similarities rooted in the thematic, these exhibitions
represent the only examples of American museum‐funded contemporary
art exhibitions directly engaged with the Occupy movement. The
shows are, in this sense, at the forefront of major shifts in
curatorial practices and intended goals. The curatorial decision to
take up Occupy as a thematic subject raises provocative questions
about the densely textured interplay between museums as platforms
for discursive and cultural production, and their role as sites of
reflection and sociopolitical activism—including the problems and
possibilities of this role. A close reading of these exhibitions is
further informed by a discussion of their primary and secondary
modes of distribution—museumgoers, occupy activists, and the larger
[general] public. Finally, a discussion of the Occupy movement and
the current state of media and politics in the United States leads
to a greater understanding of these exhibitions as cultural
platforms for concurrent reflection to delineate the new conditions
of possibility for artists, curators, and cultural institutions
arising from the multifaceted, hyper‐networked contemporary social
landscape.
Advisors/Committee Members: Brewer, Maura (Committee Chair), Wedell, Noura (Committee Member), Halberstam, Jack (Committee Member).